[f. ENCROACH v. + -ING2.] That encroaches.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. i. 96. The House of Yorke thrust from the Crowne, By lofty proud incroaching tyranny.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xi. (1851), 426. It concern’d them first to sue out their Livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching Prerogative.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 50. Ladies in your Way, are often like incroaching Subjects.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxix. (1856), 250. After a few anxious breath-compressed moments, our nobly-strengthened little craft rose up upon the encroaching floes bodily.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, i. 26. The cold encroaching policy of Sparta.
